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Almuerzo ligero donde los haya café, zumo, galleta de chocolate (faltaba más) y agua. Suscribiros a los video feeds RSS: Suscríbete a los vídeos de viajes de hombrelobo Para iPods y AppleTVs, usad iTunes: Y para suscribiros al videoblog con Miro, pulsad aquí: Descarga el vídeo gratis a tu ordenador - Suscríbete a mis vídeos de viajes con Miro Para suscribiros al videoblog con Miro, pulsad aquí: Suscríbete con Miro

Podictionary weekly is an audio compilation of the five words of the day from the daily version of the podictionary podcast. This episode sponsored by GotoMeeting. Try it free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomeeting.com/podcast Monday’s podictionary word was humble Tuesday’s word history was for cricket Wednesday’s word origin was for develop Thursday’s etymology, posted at OUPblog was for squirrel and Friday’s word root was for the word envelope Transcripts of all of the above episodes are available by following the links. ShareThis

Earlier this week, Truthdig editors Robert and Peter Scheer stopped by the Michael Jackson radio show for a free-ranging discussion on politics, disaster in Burma and more. Truthdig_mj_scheer5-12.mp3

WWW.CRUISECONTROLRADIO.COM On this hour of Cruise Control with Fred and Les Jackson The price of fuel i s up and maybe you wallet is a little slim but could it be a good time to buy a full size pickup truck? You might be surprised. Are you getting all you paid for at the pump? Turns out maybe not. We'll tell you how one gas pump component could be coming up short. Hyundai claims it fuel efficient future with be a 50 / 50 deal Plus an "At the Wheel" review of the 2008 Dodge Caravan with Swivel and Go. All that and more on this edition of the Cruise Control Pod cast. http://www.cruisecontrolradio.com/ for more information. Find out how to listen live on Saturday May 17th, 2008 from 10AM to12 Noon. Call in 1 877 977 6100

As China prepares for the Olympics, it must also consider its approach to the foreign press. Minky Worden, media director at Human Rights Watch and editor of China's Great Leap, and Ian Buruma, journalist, author, and professor of Democracy, Human Rights & Journalism at Bard College, discuss China's changing media strategy and other issues surrounding the games. Event Ian Buruma and Minky Worden are participating in a panel tomorrow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Details can be found here.

The polar bear is now listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act due to projections of melting sea ice at the pole. Is this a sign of a changing government position on global climate change? Andrew Wetzler, Director of the Endangered Species Project at the National Resources Defense Council, explains the significance.

Wendy Perrin, consumer news editor at Condé Nast Traveler, joins us every Thursday this May as part of our month-long series on travel. Today's topic: weak-dollar travel strategies. French Riviera too expensive? Consider laying your towel on a Croatian beach! Have any questions for Wendy? Comment below! Travel was the #1 suggestion in our Word of Wisdom segment.

In honor of the It's My Park! Day, a semi-annual Parks & Recreation Department event highlighting New Yorkers' local neighborhood parks, we'll take time in each the next five shows to appreciate a park in every borough. To start us off, Alexie Torres-Fleming, founder and executive director of Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, talks about the brand-new Concrete Plant Park in the South Bronx.

Think it is possible to keep your anti-war idealism and back a non-anti-war candidate? I do, because making concessions for politics is what most people end up doing. We need to defeat McCain, and in this podcast I make a case for it. I think even Republicans might agree, McCain isn t really [...]

WNYC reporters Bob Hennelly and Andrea Bernstein discuss the week's developments in the presidential campaign, including John McCain's recent visit to New Jersey and John Edwards' endorsement of Barack Obama.

CLICK TO WATCH HEADZUP.TV Mobile Satire For A Mobile Democracy BREAKING NEWS: John McCain is asked about Doug Goodyear, the man he personally chose to run the Republican Convention, and his ties to the brutal junta in Myanmar. Read more about this at the Crooks and Liars website. FREE DAILY MOBILE DOWNLOADS: Visit www.headzup.tv using your cell phone and download Headzup video clips and share them with others as picture messages. SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY HEADZUP and get FREE daily "heads up" by email. DOWNLOAD TODAY'S HEADZUP and share them with your family and friends. YOUTUBE GALLERY Watch hundreds of the most popular, most recent, and most discussed Headzup clips on YouTube. copyright, 2008 - Headzup Entertainment

Download iPod ~ embedding options @ Revver A Los Angeles press conference on May 10, 2008, Alan Breslauer of HotPotatoMash asks presidential candidate Ralph Nader if he sees the upcoming election ending any differently than in 2004 (stolen by the Republicans) and 2000 (decided by the Supreme Court). Related Links ::: Hot Potato Mash, The Brad Blog ~ Sustainability would be nice. ~

Llegado al aeropuerto de Frankfurt, os cuento qué es lo que hago aquí y lo que vais a ver en los próximos días. Suscribiros a los video feeds RSS: Suscríbete a los vídeos de viajes de hombrelobo Para iPods y AppleTVs, usad iTunes: Y para suscribiros al videoblog con Miro, pulsad aquí: Descarga el vídeo gratis a tu ordenador - Nuevo canal de vídeos Probando.tv Acabamos de lanzar: probando.tv

Me encanta la idea de este vídeo, en el que mezclando trozos de noticieros de la BBC, esos últimos segundos en los que los presentadores terminan de hablar y esperan a los créditos, dan la impresión de que no hay nada de lo que hablar, de que no hay noticias, de que nadie ha muerto asesinado ni nadie ha invadido a nadie. La paz del silencio. Me encanta. Visto en BoingBoing - Suscríbete a mis vídeos de viajes con Miro Para suscribiros al videoblog con Miro, pulsad aquí: Suscríbete con Miro

CLICK TO WATCH HEADZUP.TV Mobile Satire For A Mobile Democracy BREAKING NEWS: President Bush is asked about deploying unfit soldiers, not paying for soldiers' college, and the fact that some deceased soldiers were cremated at a pet crematorium. Call your Congressman now 202-224-3121. Read more about this at the USA Today! website. FREE DAILY MOBILE DOWNLOADS: Visit www.headzup.tv using your cell phone and download Headzup video clips and share them with others as picture messages. SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY HEADZUP and get FREE daily "heads up" by email. DOWNLOAD TODAY'S HEADZUP and share them with your family and friends. YOUTUBE GALLERY Watch hundreds of the most popular, most recent, and most discussed Headzup clips on YouTube. copyright, 2008 - Headzup Entertainment

Justin Green, program director of Build It Green! NYC, talks about how to recycle building materials and why you should. Gearing up for a renovation? You'll want to hear this.

Is it ever okay to eat out of the trash? Amanda Taylor, "The Conscientious Objector" columnist for L Magazine, examines the politics of what we throw away.

NPR senior political correspondent Juan Williams weighs in on the politics of the day.

Thomas Wold, contributing editor and columnist at ReadyMade magazine talks about making the most out of found furniture.

In 1958 John F Kennedy addressed a graduating class at Smith College in Massachusetts. He demanded that they ask themselves if they wanted to be hammers or anvils. He challenged them to use the talents that society had helped develop in them. In saying this Kennedy was using the word develop in a way that is much closer to its etymological roots than might be our use of development in talking about real estate or business development. The word first turned up during Shakespeare s lifetime 400 years ago as disvelop and meant to reveal something. So the de in develop means to take away from velopment. Velopment meant wrapping up or rolling up something. So if you enveloped something by rolling it in a blanket, you developed it by unrolling it and revealing it. JFK s use of develop suggested the bringing out of talents that had lain hidden within the former students. Real estate development certainly doesn t reveal roads, houses and shopping malls that had previously been hidden in farmer s fields and woodlots. When I read that the word develop meant to unroll I instantly jumped to the conclusion that velop must be somehow related to the Latin volvere to roll. Develop came to English from Old French and you know the drill; was French must have been Latin. But not necessarily this time evidently. Here we have a battle of the titans as far as opinion goes on the roots of this word. It definitely was floating around in the Latin-leftover-language that turned into French; but while a guy named Friedrich Diez was thinking along the lines that my assumptions jumped to, Walter Skeat thought it had instead evolved in a Germanic language and been picked up by those same folks who were turning Latin into French. I ve mentioned Skeat before as being a giant in the world of etymology, but I ve not mentioned Diez. He was German and lived through most of the 1800s. He wasn t too much concerned with English dictionaries but he built an important base upon which English dictionaries could be developed. Diez was German and although Old English was built on Germanic roots, his interest was in French and the other Romance languages Spanish and Italian. That may be why he has a sympathy for a Latin etymology for develop. He brought to his studies a kind of scientific method that replaced the guesswork that went into earlier books on the development of these languages. He is important to us because of the degree to which English evolved out of French since he is remembered as one of the founding fathers of Romance philology. Philology literally means love of talk which is why we word lovers are logophiles. Before I go I wanted to remind listeners about two things. First of all that Grammar Girl s podcast has been very supportive of podictionary and she has a large and loyal audience so you might want to check her out. Second, tomorrow as every Thursday the podictionary podcast is being carried over at the OUPblog.

9 min. ~ Download iPod ~ Bandwidth Challengedembedding options @ RevverChris explains his major platform positions. Related Links ::: Chris4Senate.org, David Rovics, Mobile Broadcast News ~ Sustainability would be nice. ~

This month marks the sixth month that Voices en Español has been in existence. So far, so good. But now, after 30 podcasts, 162 blog posts and 396 reader comments, probation is over and it s time to step back and take stock of how I m doing. So, dear reader, this is where you come in. [...]

When the economy is shaky, tourism may be a necessary evil to kick start growth. Milton Glaser explains why he felt designing the "I ♥ NY" logo was his civic duty in similar tough times. Also, Thomas Ranese of Empire State Development explains why tourism makes dollars and sense for New York.

CLICK TO WATCH HEADZUP.TV Mobile Satire For A Mobile Democracy BREAKING NEWS: Hillary Clinton finally finds her path to the nomination. FREE DAILY MOBILE DOWNLOADS: Visit www.headzup.tv using your cell phone and download Headzup video clips and share them with others as picture messages. SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY HEADZUP and get FREE daily "heads up" by email. DOWNLOAD TODAY'S HEADZUP and share them with your family and friends. YOUTUBE GALLERY Watch hundreds of the most popular, most recent, and most discussed Headzup clips on YouTube. copyright, 2008 - Headzup Entertainment

William Eskridge, the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale and author of Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws In America, talks about his new book.

With a new crop of college graduates stepping out into the real world, we ask Brian Lehrer Show listeners to offer their one-word advice. One. Word. Comment below!

With a death toll teetering around 12,000 from the recent earthquake, China needs all the help it can get. Queens New York City Councilman John Liu discusses some ways New Yorkers can help.

This weekend brings the first Jackson Heights Poetry Festival. We get a preview from Sarah Heinemann, director of the festival and Ishle Park, former Poet Laureate of Queens. Also: Send us your Queens-inspired poems. Email your poem to brianlehrershow@wnyc.org, and start each poem with the words “My Dream from Queens." Be sure to include your full name and a number where we can reach you; we'll have some listener-poets read their works on the air!

Tara Colton, deputy director of Center for an Urban Future, authored a report that says New York City should do more for its video game industry. Wade Tinney, founding partner of Large Animal Games, talks about what it's like to be a gamer in the Big Apple.

Watch Video *Here: Special guest Todd Barkan on HammondCast Show KYOURADIO, Jon Hammond interview with Todd Barkan, who ran Keystone Korner in North Beach. When Keystone closed in 1983, it was one of the last San Francisco clubs to regularly book national and international touring jazz groups. Barkan is now the artistic director of Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, the jazz club operated by Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, and he's also a highly regarded producer who works with numerous domestic and European jazz labels. ©2008 http://www.HammondCast.com Todd Barkan http://www.toddbarkan.com/